We thank all of you for coming, nice to see you. We had a couple of lectures last week, just out of curiosity, who came to some of our lectures last week? Oh, great! Thanks for coming back and thank you for coming for the first time. Because some points that I make in all the lectures are quite important, I will make them again tonight. If you were here...

All the information that I will present tonight comes from the Vedic scriptures. The Vedas are very ancient scriptures. Actually, they were written down 5,000 years ago, but the knowledge itself is eternal. Prior to being written down, it was passed down orally from one perfect master to the next, such a line of perfect teachers is known as a disciplic...

When we begin to discuss yoga, we must discuss our identity. This is the beginning of all knowledge of life; it is the foundation of all knowledge.
When you build a house, you must first build the foundation, it must be a good foundation. You can’t build the roof first, you can’t build the walls, you can’t build the interior – you must...

What does the word ‘yoga’ mean? It means ‘to link’, ‘united with’, or linked up with.’ The different paths of yoga are specifically designed to bring about a union or a linking, a coming together between the individual soul and the Supreme Soul. The perfect yogi is a perfect person who is perfectly linked, united with, connected with The...

You see, when the soul comes into the material world it becomes covered by different layers of material energy, it’s described in the Vedas. The first layer of material energy that covers the spirit soul is called the layer of false ego. If you’ve studied any yoga teachings, read any yoga books or esoteric books, etc., you will probably have...

Yoga: the path to inner perfection. What is inner perfection? Everybody knows that perfection of life is the perfection of happiness, right, who can deny that? Everybody wants to be happy. Why does everybody want to be happy, because it’s the nature of the soul.
The soul has many inherent characteristics, characteristics that can never be separated...

It becomes more and more frustrating, the more ardently we play the game. The more determined I am to play this happiness game in life, the more frustrated I become. That is why the people who have the most money, which means the most facility to enjoy the senses in the biggest ways, are the most depressed, the most unhappy, the most dissatisfied. It is...

Birth
Yes, we’ve come up with all our man-made solutions to the problems of life, but they don’t work. We don’t even know what the real problems of life are. The yoga teachings say the real problems of life are birth, disease, old age and death. These are the real problems of life.
Now who sees birth as a problem? Most people see it as,...

Because we’re so dependent on the external world, trying to satisfy an infinite need from a finite source, we’re absolutely depleting the planet of all the raw materials. We’re making it so there’s no clean water to drink, there’s no good food to eat, there’s no clean air to breathe. The things that are necessary to...

If a person begins to study yoga, he will find the warning signs all over the place, “That’s not good, that’s not good, and that’s not good. You will never achieve it, you will never find it in this way.” When I was growing up, if something was lost and it was very difficult to find it, or there was a small probability, they would...